WHICH, EVEN WHEN SEEN,
“Thou seest not all, but piecemeal thou must break,
To separate contemplation, the great whole.”
THE EXQUISITE PROPORTIONS OF
THE CLASSIC PORTICO,
One of the finest specimens of
THE GREEK DORIC,
TOGETHER WITH
“The Dome, the vast and wondrous Dome,”
WHICH PROUDLY
“————————————Vies
In air with earth’s chief structures,”
Win our admiration, while there is nothing of ancient or modern days that can compete with it either in
Classic Elegance, Grandeur of Effect, or Beauty of Proportion;
And it must remain to future ages a monument of the genius of the architect, as an
“Outshining and o’erwhelming edifice.”
The stupendous purpose for which the Colosseum was erected is too well known to need description.